America
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Item data
Title
America
Collection
Maps of North and South America
Whole
Names
Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612 (Cartographer)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1635
Place: Amsterdam
Publisher: J. Hondius
Library Location
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Shelf locator: Map Div. 15-5011 [Filed with North and South America [1635]].
Subjects
Indians of South America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
Western Hemisphere -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800
Genres
Notes
Statement Of Responsibility: Jodocus Hondius excudit Amsterodami.
Content: Relief shown pictorially.
Content: Shows North and South America with European, Japanese and Native American boats.
Content: Includes inset with vignette of Native peoples of Brazil at lower left.
Language: Latin text with title America Meridionalis, signature Qqqqqqqq, [page] 389 and [page] 388 on verso.
Content: Scale approximately 1:45,000,000 at equator (W 165°23ʹ00ʺ--W 6°29ʹ00ʺ/N 63°33ʹ00ʺ--S 56°50ʹ00ʺ)
Funding: Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018)
Physical Description
Extent: 1 map : hand colored ; 36 x 47 cm, on sheet 47 x 56
Accession no. stamped in lower left corner: 53550
Languages
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 911500277
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b20647691
Other local Identifier: NA001.4.06
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): c5f6a060-00c3-0133-9f2d-58d385a7bbd0
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1635
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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "America" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1635. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c5f6a060-00c3-0133-9f2d-58d385a7bbd0
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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1635). America Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c5f6a060-00c3-0133-9f2d-58d385a7bbd0
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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "America" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 16, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c5f6a060-00c3-0133-9f2d-58d385a7bbd0
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